ruby-lang.org Archives - 07 April 2013, Sunday

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In Ruby, everything is an object. Every bit of information and code can be given their own properties and actions. Object-oriented programming calls properties by the name instance variables and actions are known as methods . Ruby’s pure object-oriented approach is most commonly demon...

Certain members of the Ruby community feel very strongly that you should never use a package manager to install Ruby, and that you should use RVM instead. While the full list of pros and cons are outside of the scope of this page, the most basic reason is that most package managers ha...

Unrestricted entity expansion can lead to a DoS vulnerability in REXML. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-1821. We strongly recommend to upgrade ruby. Details When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser can be coerced in to allocating ...

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The default encoding for ruby scripts is now UTF-8 [#6679]. Some people report that it affects existing programs, such as some benchmark programs becoming very slow [ruby-dev:46547]. Iconv was removed, which had already been deprecated when M17N was introduced in ruby 1.9. Use String#...

The default encoding for ruby scripts is now UTF-8 [#6679]. Some people report that it affects existing programs, such as some benchmark programs becoming very slow [ruby-dev:46547]. Iconv was removed, which had already been deprecated when M17N was introduced in ruby 1.9. Use String#...

The default encoding for ruby scripts is now UTF-8 [#6679]. Some people report that it affects existing programs, such as some benchmark programs becoming very slow [ruby-dev:46547]. Iconv was removed, which had already been deprecated when M17N was introduced in ruby 1.9. Use String#...

There is a denial of service and unsafe object creation vulnerability in the json bundled with ruby. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-0269. We strongly recommend to upgrade ruby. Details When parsing certain JSON documents, the JSON gem (includes bundle...

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Now Ruby 1.9.3-p392 is released. I apologize for updating too frequently. This release includes security fixes about bundled JSON and REXML. Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2013-0269) Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML (XML bomb) And so...

The Barcelona Ruby Conference Call for Papers is Open Barcelona Ruby Conference is a conference that takes place in the heart of Catalunya, Spain this September 14-15. Starring world-class speakers as Aaron Patterson (rails and ruby core), David Chelimsky (The RSpec book author, RSpec...

Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released. This will be the last release candidate of Ruby 2.0.0. Please give it a try, and report any issue if you notice. Locations <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-rc2.tar.bz2> SIZE: 10822239 bytes MD5: e92420131bd7994513e0bf09a3e2a19b SHA256: d...

Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released. This will be the last release candidate of Ruby 2.0.0. Please give it a try, and report any issue if you notice. Locations <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-rc2.tar.bz2> SIZE: 10822239 bytes MD5: e92420131bd7994513e0bf09a3e2a19b SHA256: d...